Registering attachment for drinking-glasses.



No. 636,815. I Patented Nov. [4, I899. J. KBEUTZMANN.

REGISTERING ATTACHMENT FOR DRINKING GLASSES.

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REGISTERING ATTACHMENT FOB DRINKING GLASSES.

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JoHANNEs KREUTZMANN, or KomcsBEEe, GERMANY.

REGISTERING ATTACHMENT FC R DRENKENG- GLASSES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 636,815, dated November 14, 1899.

' Application filed September 1, 1898. Serial No. 690,023 N modBlJ T0 aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHANNES KREUTZ- MANN, a subject of the Emperor of Germany,

residing at Konigsberg, Prussia, Germany, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Registering Attachments for Drinking-Glasses, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a counting device arranged on saucers for beer-glasses which are provided with a flanged base.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents in perspective the device applied to a goblet provided with the usual base. Fig. 2 is a top view of the counting device in its closed position, and Fig. 3 a bottom plan of the same with the bottom cover removed.

The device, which is held in position on the base of the glass during drinking, is composed of a circular box A, closed at its top by a metallic plate and inclosing a ring R, having teeth on its internal periphery, and retained in the box by means of lugs c on the box. The base of the glass is held in the box by a lid or cover, one half, N, of which is fixed to the'box, while the other half, L, is adapted to partially rotate with a pivot-pin l), which extends through an opening provided in the box. At the lower end of the pivot 12 a lever b is fixed, which when the half L of the case or cover is caused to turn outwardly with said pin actuates a bell-crank lever H by the aid of the pin S on said lever engaging a slot 72, in one arm of the lever H. To the arm h of the bell-crank lever H is pivoted a pawl K, which is acted upon by a fiat spring h, secured to the arm h, and causes the toothed ring R to advance one tooth each time the half L of the case or cover is closed. The upper side of the toothed ring R is provided with the numerals, which are visible through suitable openings provided in the cover of the box, and which consequently as the ring R is rotated appear successively opposite the said openings, thus indicating the number of glasses of beer that have been drunk. Two stop-springs F f, secured to the under side of the cover, prevent the ring R from being moved in a reverse direction from that intended.

The device operates in the following manner: When a glass is to be refilled, the movable part L of the cover is rotated or moved to one side by unfastening the friction knob= catches a a, and the glass is removed from the device. The pivot b and simultaneously therewith the lever 71, mounted thereon, are turned and the pin S of said lever, guided in the slot 72/ of the bell-crank lever H, carries the latter along with it and causes the pawl K to recede upon the ring R to the extent of one tooth. When the refilled glass has again been placed in the device and the movable half L of the cap closed, the toothed ring R will advance one tooth in the direction indicated by the arrow in Fig. 3, and in the holes in the surface of the box willappear the figures which indicate the number of glasses of beer that have been drunk.

Having fully described my invention,what

. I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A holder for 'oblets or the like composed of a box having one or more openings therein and having covers adapted to embrace the base of a goblet, one of said covers being fixed and the other pivoted on the box, a toothed ring having numbers consecutively arranged on its upper side, a bell-crank lever adapted to rotate said toothed ring, and means for operating said lever by the partial rotation of the pivoted cover, substantially as set forth.

2. A holder for goblets, or the like, composed of a box having one or more openings therein, .a pivoted cover adapted to embrace the base of a goblet, a toothed ring having numbers consecutively arranged on its upper side, said numbers registering with the openings in the box, a lever adapted to rotate said toothed ring, means for operating said lever from the pivoted cover, and means for preventing the backward rotation of said toothed ring, substantially as set forth.

JOHANNES KREUTZMANN.

Witnesses Mrs. FLoEY, A. P. MULLER. 

